Belt fastener



Nov. 8, 1927.` 1,648,395

A. GOLDSHOLL BELT FASTEN'ER Filed Nov. 11, 1926 M INVNTO ATTORNEY Patented Nov. 8, 1927.

ABRAHAM eoLnsHoLL, or NEW YORK, n. Y.

BELT FASTENER.

Application filed November 11, 1925. `Serial No. 147,770.

This invention relates to wearing apparel and has particular reference to closures or fastening means for nether garments such as drawers, bloomers, or the like.

Among the objects of the invention is yt0 provide a tightening or closing means for' either the waist band or leg portions of a garment that shallbe easily applied and manipulated; that may be readily removed from the garment for laundry purposes soV as K to relieve the belt or tightening feat-ure from being subjected to the laundry fluids and view the invention consists in the arrange-L ment and combination of parts hereinafter described and claimed, and while the invention is not restricted to the exact details of construction disclosed or suggested herein,

.still for the purpose of illustrating a practical embodiment thereof reference is had to the accompanying drawings in which like reference characters designate the same parts in the several views, and in which- Figure 1 is a diagram indicating the waist band portion of a garment and the initiation of the insertion of the belt made according to this invention.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged front elevation of the overlapping and joined ends of the belt.

Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a rear elevation of the joined ends of the belt. Y y

Fig. 5 isa plan view of the blank con-- stituting the guard.

Fig. 6 is a similar view of the blank showing the hook.

Fig. 7 is a vertical transverse section on the line 7-e7 of Fig. 3.

Fig. 8 is a detail view of the instrument used for inserting the belt into place.

Referring now more specifically to the drawings, I show at 10 a fragment of a garmentrwhich may be thought of as the waistJ portion of a pair of bloomers or the` like and provided with one or more gussets 11 and having at the waist line a box-like pleat or pocket 12 with an opening at 13.

14 is a belt in the-nature of a flat pieceof 'tape or its equivalent and made preferably of rubber or some other suitable flexible and elastic material and adapted to be inserted into the pocket atv 12 by any suitable means as, for example, a needlev or hook 15.

@ne end of the belt 14 is kprovided with a hook member 16 comprising a body 16a andl a' hook proper 16".V The body is provided with a plurality of points or spurs 17 shown in liat form lin Fig. 6 and which are adapted to ber driven through the belt 14- by manipulation of a suitable tooland clinched over on the opposite side, making a permanentattachment. j n

Adjacent to the other end of the beltfare disposed a series of fastening members complemental to the hook member 16, the same comprising a series of eyelets 18 or their equivalent suitably spaced from one another and the end ofthe belt, and each eyelet 18 having associated therewith a crown or guard member 19. A s shown the eyelets are of conventional natureor construction, each being forcedr through the Vfabric of the belt and clinched therecver on opposite sides. Y

Each guard member is of generally tri# angular form as shown in Fig. 5 when flat and provided with end and side prongs 20 which, upon the application'lof a suitable l tool, are adapted to be driven throughthe fabric of the belt and clinched on the opposite side. Coincident with the application of the guard 19 to the belt or prior theretol it is given a'convex or humped form as shown in Figs. 3 and 7 adjacent to the eyelet over a part of which the guard projects. 'j i The guard is located between the center of the eyelet protected by it and the extreme end of the belt so that when the hook 1Gb of the hook member 16 is passedv through any selected eyelet, according to the length or tightness of the belt, the point of said `hook 16b will be housed or shrouded by the guard 19 in such a: manner as to render it impossible for Vthepoint of the hook to lengage with and damage any other part of the garment or hurt the wearer. It is obviousalsoV that the adjustment of the` belt as to its los effective length `may be varied from timey Y its pocket 12 and when the garment is returned vfrom the laundry ready to be Worn again the belt may as readily be inserted into y ther pocket for its intended purpose. The

'hook 15 is engaged preferably into the first i eyelet 18, and With the shank of' the hookv likewise is preferably vso constructed as to oler the least possible resistance to suchend'- Wise movement of the belt7 it being shown as formed of flat metal so shaped and bent as tor provide Vrounded corners 16C Which facilitate the movement of the hook noty only through thepocket', but alsor into position through `the eyelet and into the interior o-t` Athe guardY member 19. Y

I claim In a belt fastener, the combination of a hook member and a series of selective socket members spaced from one another, each of said members being made of av sheet metal stamping and having kprongs to engage the beltthe' socket member having lan eyel'etvr opening communicating With both sides oi' the belt7 the hook. member being disposed on one side of the belt and adaptedto enter said opening to extendvvvith the point there`- of on the other side of the belt, each lsocket member having an individual metallic guard separate from the eyelet, said guard being spaced from the eyeletl and being Crowned to form an opening to receive the point of the hook, said opening'being transverse to the axis y'of the eyelet, said opening having its entrance at a side o the eyelet to lreceive the point or" the hook.

In testimony whereof I ah'ig my signature,

' ABRAHAM leroLDsiioLn` y 

